Chapter 126 Queen Winged Butterfly Colony

"Rumble, rumble, rumble..."

The hills deep underground in Zone F first trembled slightly, then the trembling increased, and the entire Zone F seemed to be caught in an earthquake.

"What the hell?"

Shen Li felt the surge beneath his feet, and his expression became strange.

Moths...those creatures should be flying, right?

Why is the earth trembling now?!

"The awakening of extraordinary abilities will endow some creatures with unique 'characteristics'. Acquired 'characteristics' can change their survival habits." Bai Xiu said softly, "If the Queen Winged Butterflies are truly 'phototropic', then they should appear together during the day and impact the false sky set up by the Holy City Research Institute."

Shen Li was stunned.

But... that didn't happen.

For a long time before, the Research Institute's patrol personnel hadn't noticed anything unusual.

This sixty-meter monster could never have been raised in a day.

Where had the Queen Winged Butterfly been hiding for so long?

Little Iron Man reacted quickly.

He looked at the undulating ground beneath his feet and instantly realized the answer.

Shen Li murmured, "Wait, are you saying... the Queen Winged Butterflies have been dormant underground all along?"

"Yes."

Bai Xiu nodded.

His gaze also focused on his toes, "As long as the 'extraordinary ability' can excavate the soil, any creature can live underground. What if they aren't 'phototropic', but 'photophobic'?"

Shen Li instantly felt his scalp tingle.

The files showed that this large moth appeared at night...

The light from the high-voltage power grid was instantly devoured by it!

And Jeepter, a D-level staff member, was suspected of being killed for turning on a flashlight!

All kinds of clues pointed to Bai Xiu's deduction.

On the other side, Vias felt cold sweat seeping down his back as he listened. He said with difficulty, "Are you saying that we've actually been just a 'hair's breadth' away from this thing?"

"Perhaps." Bai Xiu shook his head. "There are too few clues at the moment. We'll have to wait until the group specimens are collected..."

"Group specimens?"

Vias was stunned again.

Bai Xiu slowly turned his head and looked at this naive patrol captain, and asked seriously, "You don't think... there's only one of these things, do you?"

Vias subconsciously said, "But Queen Winged Butterflies aren't social animals..."

"Having grown to sixty meters, can they still be considered 'Queen Winged Butterflies'?"

Bai Xiu coldly dropped this sentence and walked forward.

The hills in the distance instantly undulated.

A wisp of blazing fire ignited in the darkness.

Countless tides surged and rolled—

"Buzz buzz buzz!"

"Buzz buzz buzz!"

Giant wings set off a sonic boom-like wave in the pitch-black Zone F. Shen Li's expression instantly changed. He grabbed Vias and retreated wildly. In less than ten seconds, the area between the inner and outer walls of Zone F was covered by dozens or hundreds of giant moths. Millions of compound eyes opened here, and chaotic mental power spread like a tornado—

"Retreat! Retreat!"

Shen Li roared at the patrol team behind him.

Vias had considerable combat experience, and he also reacted. However, his reaction wasn't to retreat, but to break free from Shen Li and try to move forward.

"Are you fucking crazy?"

Shen Li's eyes widened as he looked at this middle-aged uncle from Southern Continent.

How much salary does the Research Institute give him a month? Is this guy really risking his life?!

"I'm at least a fourth-order..."

Vias roared back, while drawing his saber from his waist. But the next moment, the soil beneath his feet shattered, and fifteen thousand compound eyes appeared on the path he was about to take. The two were only a few meters apart. At the moment of turning his head, the roar and roar on Vias's face solidified and stagnated.

"Sizzle—"

A storm stirred.

A bolt of lightning instantly pierced down!

Bai Xiu, who had originally been striding towards Gu Shen, glanced back and took a step, finally appearing in front of Vias. He made a false grip with his palm, and ten million strands of lightning solidified into a sword, and he slashed down just like that—

The darkness in front of Vias was instantly cleaved open by the continuous lightning!

The huge Queen Winged Butterfly was instantly split in two, and large pieces of blood were evaporated by the lightning!

"Shen Li, take him away."

Bai Xiu grabbed the back of Vias's collar and threw him backward. Shen Li unfolded [Steel Eater], caught the fourth-order, and retreated without hesitation. He knew very well that he couldn't intervene in this battle... because there were simply too many targets!

If there was only one Queen Winged Butterfly, then Gu and Bai wouldn't need to take action at all. He, a third-order, could handle it!

After all, it was a mutated extraordinary creature, just looked a little bigger!

Judging from the "destruction scene" shown in the files, the destructive power of this big moth wasn't that amazing.

But the number of targets now... dense and packed, there might be three digits!

And their "characteristics" were very diverse, seeming to combine "devouring light", "rampage", "breaking ground", and mental attacks... This was completely different from the previous situation.

Especially the last point, "mental" attacks!

The overwhelming tide and the sonic boom that pierced directly into the heart made Shen Li directly flinch.

His soul wasn't strong enough.

He simply couldn't resist it.

Once his mind was lost... then he would be like Vias just now, directly broken by the Queen Winged Butterflies.

Being broken meant waiting for death!

"Retreat, retreat, retreat!"

Little Iron Man carried Vias, who was in a state of mental breakdown, all the way, and the entire Zone F was quickly sealed off. He didn't stop until he reached the outer wall. Vias then reacted. He was still in shock, looking at the two figures blocked by the Queen Winged Butterflies. The distant hills rose and fell, and the sky was filled with grass clippings, a dark and oppressive scene, exuding silence and suffocation...

"Are we just leaving like this?"

Vias said in a hoarse voice, "Those two aren't retreating?"

Shen Li carried him and didn't put him down until he reached the highest point of the outer wall.

"Please... we're here to solve the problem."

He said helplessly, "Have a little faith in us, okay?"

Vias silently looked at Shen Li.

"Okay... have a little faith in them, okay?"

Little Iron Man changed his words in this silence, then said seriously, "These two are S-levels from Eastern Continent. Their 'fourth-order' and your 'fourth-order' aren't the same thing."

"Not... the same thing..."

Vias struggled to get up.

He looked at the butterfly storm in the distance, and the two blazing lights in the hills.

...

...

"One, two, three..."

The moment the hills rose and fell, Gu Shen began counting in his heart.

He released his spirit.

And captured every wisp of extraordinary aura fluctuation underground. Having experienced the Frozen Lake battle, he knew too well the living habits of this "underground creature". Before the storm rose, he had already prepared to face the storm.

"Ninety-three."

Gu Shen said with a smile through voice transmission, "It's hard to imagine what the scene would be like if so many large moths emerged from the ground together..."

"I'm also very curious."

Bai Xiu's expression was calm, "It's a pity that only you were arranged to dive deep in the Frozen Lake mission..."

"Actually, the bottom of Frozen Lake is quite boring."

Gu Shen smiled slightly, "If you want to go down and take a look, I'll leave the final mission to you."

As soon as he finished speaking.

The hills instantly bloomed, like a flower bud.

And what was emitted after the flower bloomed wasn't fragrance.

But countless Queen Winged Butterflies hidden in the flower buds... each one at least thirty meters.

"It seems that the one last night was also 'extra large'."

Gu Shen waved his hand, and iron scales flew, gathering into a knife.

His "Pure Land" domain instantly unfolded.

The sound of shattering "ding ding dang dang" kept exploding around him. When a large number of Queen Winged Butterflies surged out, a mental attack surged in the dark and had already arrived. Gu Shen's divine domain was as solid as gold, surrounded by wind and snow, and difficult to spread in the majestic storm, only able to cover a radius of ten meters around him. Within this range, any attack was frozen by the "Pure Land".

On the other side.

Bai Xiu also unfolded his ability.

The towering divine shadow of [Thunder Realm Walker] floated behind him, and thunder surged. His control over the domain was obviously higher than Gu Shen's current level. Thunder roamed the outer edge of the dark storm and wasn't significantly "suppressed".

This was to be expected.

Bai Xiu was already a peak fourth-order extraordinary.

And Gu Shen, only possessed fourth-order combat power... He was currently still on the eighth level of the Deep Sea. In this kind of battle, he needed to rely on the "Pure Land" domain born from three transcendent states.

"One person on each side."

Gu Shen grasped the saber and said, "The sooner we clear the field, the sooner we finish work... Those extraordinary from other continents are about to rush over."

As soon as the voice came out, Bai Xiu rushed out.

Thunder surged.

Those "photophobic" Queen Winged Butterflies were furious at the first sight of [Thunder Realm Walker].

They opened their wings, rushed out angrily, wanting to tear the target apart.

A storm sweeps over a candle, and the candle will go out.

A storm crashes into the sun, and the storm will go out.

Bai Xiu expressionlessly launched a "massacre" among the Queen Winged Butterfly clan. He acted quickly and ruthlessly, with absolutely no deviation. The Thunder Blade split each Queen Winged Butterfly from the middle, perfectly complete and symmetrical.

"Tsk."

Gu Shen only watched for a second before withdrawing his gaze.

He was in the center of the storm, as the starter who ignited the "fire of light," he was targeted by more than half of the Queen Winged Butterflies. At this moment, he raised his head and saw a dense black tide in front of him, and overlapping compound eyes.

But it didn't matter.

As long as his mental power was strong enough, he would have an almost "invincible" advantage in this kind of battle.

Shen Li and Vias couldn't resist at all.

That was because their minds couldn't withstand the attacks of butterfly swarms that had been multiplied several times.

But Gu Shen was different.

He shook his saber, and the frost of the Pure Land covered it. As the storm approached, he was like a grain of sand swallowed by the sea tide, and he walked in calmly and resolutely against the raging waves—

"Buzz—"

Gu Shen raised his long knife, and gently stroked it with two fingers.

His first knife did nothing.

He just lifted it forward, the blade standing straight, the silence of the Pure Land, combined with the "ultimate sharpness" attribute of the iron knife, directly cut open a "large moth" that was rushing towards him head-on.

"The single strength can pose a threat to third-order extraordinaries..."

Gu Shen gave his preliminary assessment.

"Putting aside the characteristics of the group, and the mental superimposed attack method, with Shen Li's strength, he can complete the surrender and beheading within ten seconds..."

"It's a pity."

"There are simply too many."

Gu Shen held the knife with both hands and began to run. He crashed into the core of the storm, turning into a high-speed moving fire of light. Because of the "photophobic" characteristic, the Queen Winged Butterflies were like schools of fish in the deep sea. In the rising storm, they continued to descend and launch attacks at Gu Shen, but they greatly underestimated the enemy's power.

No need to wait for them to rush up.

Gu Shen stepped on the giant butterflies, constantly ascending into the sky, and headed towards the highest point of the storm. When the underground butterfly swarm appeared, he locked onto the largest one, the sixty-meter butterfly king.

The Pure Land domain fluttered in the air.

The iron knife was like cutting melons and vegetables.

On the wall of the outer wall in the distance, all the research institute combat members who witnessed all of this were silent... especially Vias. Also a fourth-order, Gu Shen and Bai Xiu's fighting styles were far beyond his imagination.

He simply couldn't believe what Shen Li said, that these two were extraordinaries in the same realm as him!

Slaughter.

These two people, facing these nearly one hundred Queen Winged Butterflies, were simply slaughtering!

"Is this the 'S-level' of Eastern Continent?"

Adam unknowingly came here as well. He said calmly, "Very strong, but... the Four Divine Envoys of Upper City are even stronger than them."

Shen Li turned his head and glanced at Adam.

"Really? I don't think so." Little Iron Man sneered, and said unhappily, "When you were waiting for rescue, where were the Divine Envoys of Upper City?"

Unexpectedly.

Adam's expression didn't change much, and he continued to say calmly, "Probably thinking about how to plunder the resources of the Sang Continent cave. Even if they came, they might not be willing to clean up these butterfly swarms."

"..."

Shen Li was speechless all of a sudden.

He thought that Adam was talking sarcastically, but he didn't expect that this guy was telling the truth?

Little Iron Man scratched his head.

So were these guys allies, or enemies?

"Sorry, I'm a bit direct."

Adam pushed his glasses and said, "If I remember correctly, Southern Continent also had an 'S-level' a few years ago, but before he could grow up, he was killed by a red dragon in the same realm. It can be seen that although 'S-levels' are strong, they are not invincible."

"Upper City is the wealthiest city in the Five Continents. The extraordinaries who can reach the top under the source tower divine official system no longer need to use 'S-level' to prove themselves..."

"Of course, I think the Four Divine Envoys are more powerful than these two, the most important reason is that there are only two of them after all."

Adam said lightly, "But there are four Divine Envoys."

"Listening to your words is like listening to nothing." Shen Li said sarcastically with a fake smile, "In the same level of battle, more people are different... if it is one-on-one..."

"I'm afraid I still have to vote for the 'Four Divine Envoys'."

Adam pointed to his chest and said in a tone without ripples, "Because one of them implanted a 'black silver bomb' in my heart. If I support people from other continents, I will probably be directly blown to death."

Shen Li fell silent again.

"Putting aside all subjective factors."

Adam said seriously, "I think the one in white is the most powerful. He should be able to fight the Red Dragon to a draw. As for the one in black... he shouldn't have entered this selection."

"After all, the Four Divine Envoys are all solid fourth-orders. They all have creation and methods."

He stared at Gu Shen in the storm, who was constantly beheading the butterfly swarm, and his clear eyes seemed to see through the extraordinary aura on Gu Shen's body, directly peeking into the essence of his soul.

His eyes seemed to possess other magic.

Revealing clear... wisdom.

Adam moved his gaze and looked at Shen Li, and smiled: "But no matter how strong the third-order is, it is only the third-order after all... so in my opinion, in the battle of the Divine Envoy level, that Gu Shen is not yet qualified to participate."